WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump bluntly put Venezuela’s troops leaders on notice Monday that they should welcome the Latin American country’s new domestic care or they will risk their lives and their nation’s future.

In scarcely oppressive language, Trump pronounced millions of people in Venezuela are pang from craving and genocide while military leaders in the oil-rich nation support a corrupt, odious regime that has dark divided billions of dollars.

“We know who they are, and we know where they keep the billions of dollars they have stolen,” Trump pronounced during a debate in Miami.

Trump’s remarks came just weeks after his administration famous opposition personality Juan Guaido as Venezuela’s boss and were directed at Florida’s Venezuelan village as he tries to interest to Latino votes streamer into the 2020 election.

Florida is home to 166,531 residents who identified themselves as Venezuelan, according to 2017 information from the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s roughly half the Venezuelan village in the United States.

Declaring “a new day is entrance to Latin America,” Trump stressed the United States seeks “a pacific transition of power” in Venezuela, but did not order out the probability of military action.

“All options are open,” he said.

And to Venezuelan military leaders who continue to column up the regime of embattled President Nicolas Maduro, Trump warned: “The eyes of the whole universe are on you today, every day and every day in the future. You can't censor from the choice that now confronts you.”

Speaking at Florida International University, Trump reiterated clever support for Guaido, the conduct of Venezuela’s opposition-led National Assembly, and urged Venezuela’s military and confidence army to concede charitable assist into the country.

Guaido has announced himself Venezuela’s halt president following last year’s contested presidential election. In late January, the Trump administration famous him as boss and urged Maduro to step down.

Maduro, however, has refused and has indicted the U.S. of attempting to theatre a manoeuvre against his government. Maduro-controlled confidence army have blocked shipments of food and medical reserve from reaching Venezuelans in need.

In his half-hour remarks, Trump expel Maduro as “not a Venezuelan patriot” but as “a Cuban puppet” and pronounced “the nauseous alliance” that has authorised dictators in the two countries to flower is entrance to an end.

To vigour to Maduro to step down, the Trump administration has slapped sanctions on Venezuela’s state-owned oil company, effectively exclusive the nation from exporting the wanton oil to the U.S. in an bid to starve Maduro’s regime from that critical tide of revenue.

“The people of Venezuela are station for leisure and democracy, and the United States of America is station right by their side,” Trump said.

Proclaiming that “the twilight hour of socialism has arrive in our hemisphere,” Trump also signaled that Venezuela’s stream trail toward democracy is irrevocable and that the pacific transition of energy will assistance foster democracy in Nicaragua and Cuba.

Sounding a thesis he will expected stress during his possess re-election debate subsequent year, Trump sought to tie Venezuela’s problems to what he called “the discredited ideology” of socialism, which he pronounced “promises a better future, but it always earnings to the darkest chapters of the past.”

“Socialism is about one thing only: Power for the statute class,” he said. “And the more energy they get, the more energy they crave.”

To those who try to widespread socialism in United States, Trump said: “America will never be a revolutionary country. We are innate free, and we will stay giveaway now and forever.”